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gasraehi Rotarian' Represents Canada
Canada's image abroad is both con-
fused and soiled,
We returned this week from three
weeks in Europe. We proudly wore on
one suit a lapel pin of the "stylized" maple
leaf emblematic of Canada's centennial
next year.
On another jacket we displayed the
round gilt crest of Expo '67, Both were
meaningless.
The "maple leaf" pin repeatedly was
taken for a Star of David. A post card
hawker outside St. Peter's in Rome peered
at it and gave us a Hebrew word of tweet-
ing to the capital of Roman Catholicism.
In both Paris and London Expo's badge
elicited queries as to whether we would
like to attend Rotary Club meeting in those
cities.
Plain truth is that neither emblem
suggests Canada to a stranger or to many
Canadians either for that matter.
In these two important aspects of Can-
ada's 1967 celebrations. we suggest the im-
age experts have outdone themselves in
trying to be clever, or "subliminal",
Against these follies, Canada certainly
is not unknown in Europe in at least an-
other and thoroughly undesirable way.
"What about the Mudslinger case?"
We were able to tell them little, even if
we had wished to, that they didn't already
know. Newspapers and magazines were
airing Canada's dirty parliamentary linen
even more vigorously than the press here
at home. Gerda's picture embellished,
sometimes monopolized, papers we saw.
There were long, juicy stories of sordid
details to be read in several languages,
with big headlines on our national scandal.
The clever emblem designers of Mr.
John Fisher's and Mr. Pierre Dupuy's Ca-
nadian image -building organizations—in-
tended
rganizations—in-
tended to make us all next year proud to
be Canadians—probably did us a kindly
service.
These lapel badges made it possible
to pass off our blushes •over the low estate
of Canadian political life by posing simply
as a ruddy -complexioned Israeli Rotarian.
—The Westmount Examiner, Montreal.
Cyril and Ruth Gingerich re-
turned July 12 from Nigeria
where they are missionaries
under the Mennonite Board of
Missions, Elkhart. Ind.
Since 1960 Mr. Gingerich has
served as administrative secre-
tary of the Akahaba Abiriba
Joint Hospital. a 77 -bed facility
in Abiriba, East Nigeria. His
wife helped part time as a reg-
istered nurse in the hospital.
Prior to his mission service
Mr. Gingerich served as pastor
of the Morningside Mennonite
Church, Toronto and chaplain at
the Missionary Health Institute
Chapel, Willowdale. He grad-
uated from Eastern Mennonite
College, Harrisonburg, Va., and
Toronto Bible College in On-
tario. He is the son of Jacob
and the late Pearl Gingerich,
RR 3, Zurich.
Mrs. Gingerich supervised
and taught nursing at the Mis-
sion Health Institute, Willow -
dale. She received her RN
degree from St. Mary's School
of Nursing, Kitchener. Her
parent were the late Joseph
and Martha Fretz, Kitchener.
SCENE OF REUNION — A reunion of all former stu-
dents of the Shipka School, SS 7, Stephen, was held on
Sunday, July 31, and was attended by about 500. Built in
1901, the school will no longer be in use since the completion
of the new Stephen Central School. Chairman of the reunion
was Roy Ratz, while the secretary was Mrs. Verne Sharpe.
A total of 47 teachers taught at the school during the time
it was in use.
Early phases of the romance
between Luci Baines Johnson
and Patrick J. Nugent were
candidly discussed by the priest
who joined them in marriage
last Saturday before millions
of TV viewers.
An NBC affiliate in Denver,
Colorado, reported its switch-
board was flooded with nearly
400 calls protesting the pre-
empting of a National League
baseball game for the nuptials.
I watched the coverage of
this spectacular event in color
on three American networks.
I'm all for weddings in color on
television. Let's have one every
week and to hell with baseball!
Father John Kuzinskas, a life-
long friend of the bridegroom's
family, said that last August he
was asked by Mrs. Nugent to
talk to her son and "find out
just what's happening between
Luci and Pat",
"I did talk with Pat priv-
ately," said Father Kuzinskas,
who is assistant pastor .at Chi-
cago's Church of the Nativity
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
"and he said he and Lucy were
serious." I said, Pat, you can't
be serious. She's got her edu-
cation before her, and you just
can't go steady for four years.
You should be mixing and go-
ing out and meeting people.
And he said, "Well, I don't
think so". And we just left it
at that."
Discussing the major adjust-
ments Pat will have to make
because of marrying into the
President's family, Father Kuz-
inskas noted that "Pat still has
his two feet on the ground. All
this limelight hasn't affected
him".
As for the bride, Father Kuz-
inskas described her as "a won-
derful person with a great per-
sonality and just like her moth-
er and dad, can put you very
much at ease. She is very down
to earth too and, no doubt,
this has had a definite effect
upon Pat".
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Hensall District
Robert Mickle received word
last week that he had won the
John Gordon McIntosh Scholar-
ship for the highest standing
in third year Honors Physics,
of which he received a high
"A" standing. He is on the
dean's honor list again this
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shepherd,
London, were guests Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Shep-
herd.
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.From My Window
By Shirley Keller
WITHIN ONE HOLIDAY
Ever notice how many truly
descriptive words are contained
within the ane word "holiday"?
Put in sequence, they tell the
whole story.
"Load"— At least once each
year, people get the feeling
their load is getting too heavy.
Day-to-day living may not be
exciting, but it sure is exhaust-
ing, Just when you are certain
you can bear it no longer, holi-
day time rolls around . , . then
it's another kind of a load, the
type you pack in bags and suit-
cases and boxes to transfer on,
in, around, through, over and
under your car.
"Day" -- Usually something
you would just as soon not face,
a day on vacation is something
to cherish, If you are fortun-
ate, you will have anywhere
from one to eight weeks of days
to fill with sightseeing, swim-
ming, boating, picnicking, visit-
ing, sunning, driving, golfing—
the list is endless.
There are four types of holi-
days.
"Lay" —If you are the lazy
vacationer, you prefer to rest.
In bed until noon, reclined until
evening, relaxed until bedtime;
a "lay" holiday is often the best
holiday . . the first choice of
the aged and the not -so -aged
who have the good sense to use
a vacation as it was intended
to be used.
"Lid" —A "lid" holiday is
designed especially for bache-
lors. Named for its relation-
ship to the phrase "blow the
lid off", this type of vacation
includes hitting every bar and
social spot in town; flirting
with every gal in the place;
making merry at the most dis-
respectful hours; and generally
racing your motor in a quiet
zone.
"Lad"— On the other hand
(and the very thing that makes
"lid" holidays so popular) there
are the "lad" holidays, appeal -
ling strictly to the ladies. "Lad"
holidays require a swinging
wardrobe, a crazy hair -do, one
room at a hotel near a beach,
plenty of sunshine and a full
moon every night . oh yes,
and an assortment of lads. Rel-
atively inexpensive if you play
your cards right, "lad" holidays
often result in a more perma-
nent arrangement .
and from then on, it's
"aid" holidays.
"Aid" holidays are the worst
kind . , . and they fall to the
folks who need a vacation the
most. An "aid" holiday is so
called because of its compon-
ents—financial aid, lemon ade,
children's aid and first aid.
Every genuine "aid" holiday
has a small car, kids in vary-
ing quantities, a giant dog, a
camp stove, a map -reading nerv-
ous navigator who used to be
Mother and a flat broke, lunatic
pilot who resembles father.
"Had" —This is what you've
got when you return — a "had"
feeling. Good or bad, vacation
is over and you are sorry to
see it end.
"Hold" — This is what you
do for the next 12 months —
hold on to the memories of your
vacation and to the hope of
another to conn.
"Holy" — This is what holi-
days have become — a holy,
even sacred time more beloved
to some than anything else in
life. People live for vacation,
save for it, plan for it, bow
down to it . . . just one more
symptom of an affluent society
in search of peace.
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
A VISIT TO THE HOMETOWN
Spent a week in the old
hometown recently, and, as
usual, it was anything but a
rest. The weather was perfect,
but the hospitality was ex-
hausting.
It's not really my hometown.
I didn't grow up there, physi-
cally. But I spent a decade
there in the newspaper busi-
ness, and maybe I grew up
there in other ways. Anyway,
when you walk down the main
street, and every second person
stops to shake hands and ask
about your family, and tell you
what their kids are doing now,
it's your hometown.
A small town changes and
yet remains the same. A few
businesses have changed hands.
Some of the stores have new
fronts. The paint on the hotel
has been changed from passion-
ate purple to ghastly green.
The shady, tree -lined street on
which you used to live has been
raped: the stately trees cut to
ugly stumps, as the street is
to be widened.
But the biggest changes are
in the people. The young men
you used to work and play with
are grizzled or as bald as eggs.
The young women you used to
look at with some interest are
sagging and dentured. The
lovable kids that your kids used
to play with are hulking ado-
lescents, some of them delin-
quents with police records.
And your old partner, once ap-
parently indestructible, is tak-
ing eight different colors of
pills.
Despite the changes, there is
continuity as comfortable as an
old fishing hat. The Chamber
of Commerce is still fighting
over store hours. The Indus-
trial Commission is on the
verge of announcing .a huge
new industry. The fire brigade
races periodically to the town
dump, where the incinerating
process has got out of hand
because the caretaker has
bogged off for a beer,
Some of the local characters
have gone to their reward, but
local lawyer still plays his elec-
tric organ between clients. The
many are still around. The
local millionaire still lugs bags
of salt and feed into the back
of his '66 model and lugs it
out to feed his cattle. The
barber, with whom you once
shared a riotous Legion zone
rally, still quips with his ens
-
tamers, though he went off to
fight in a war over 50 years
ago. The canny Scot chortles
as he tells you his shore lots
are now going over $4,000. The
same waiter insults the same
customers, in the pub. The
same beer barrel in human form
sits in the same seat in the
same pub.
The same people still come
to the same cottages. Except
feet last time you saw her: And
that the pregnant young ma-
tron was a skinny kid in bare
the handsome young chap who
works at the summer store was
a tyke called Johnny -Cake last
time you saw him.
However, it's good to get
back for a visit. And it's never
uneventful.
Kept my hand in by writing
a few news stories for the
paper. Took the family to the
Indian reserve; same beautiful
view and easy-going inhabi-
tants. Dropped in on old
friends and got all the latest
dope on who was going crazy,
and who was running around
with whom.
Had a beer at the Cedar Rail,
most unique bar in the coun-
try, and with the best prices.
It's a shed on a farm, full of
tools and baled hay. A cedar
rail extends across the front.
You stand there with your
farmer friend, lean on the rail
and look at the lake down be-
low. We've seen deer and bear
from there, and covered local
politics and talked cattle.
Got stuck in the sand at the
beach, to the rage of my wife.
She went flying off to find a
tow truck, in a friend's car.
While she was away, I was
pulled out easily by a man with
no arms, who had a chain in
his trunk, a wife to drive his
car, and 'a gaggle of kids to
help push. Sounds like fiction,
but it's fact.
It could only happen in or
around the old hometown.
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Visit Colorado
Carol Gascho and Donna Kip-
per, of Zurich; Sheila Fahner,
of Exeter, and. Diane Weber, of
Dashwood, were among 41 Ca-
nadian youths who travelled to
the EUB Convocation at Estes
Park, Colorado.
They left by bus from Kit-
ever on July 19. After the
four-day convocation they spent
a day touring the Air Force
Academy and the Gardens of
the Gods. They also climbed
Mount Manitou by incline rail- gotten by the young people,
They were accompanied by
youth leaders, Rev. and Mrs.
Bruce Seebach and Mrs. C.
] orbeek, of Hamilton, and Miss
Anne Reuber, of Elmira..
way and enjoyed a western -
style supper and cowboy show
at the Flying W Ranch..
The 10 days of travel, fun and
fellowship will not soon be for-
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1000
BRANCHES...,
and the deepest roots in Canada
SUSSEX, New Brunswick, welcomes a new
branch of the Bank of Montreal this week. It's
the 1,000th office of Canada's First Bank.
Rooted in the soil of Canada for half a century
before Confederation, the Bank of Montreal
today serves well over three million customers
through its network of offices stretching from
coast to coast and reaching to the far corners of
the earth.
BANK. OF MONTREAL
Canada's First Bank
Hensail Branch: VICTOR PYEIiL, Mgr.
Zurich Branch: RAYMOND McKINNON, Manager
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